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...became increasingly clear that Princeton and the Black and White would be dueling for second, as the Badgers stroked to a three-length margin. In the end, the Tigers snuck across the line about one second ahead of Radcliffe, but were almost 12 seconds behind Wisconsin...
...four weeks between the Sprints and IRAs, the Black and White tinkered with the technical aspects of their stroke, especially with the length and catch quickness...
...meters, the crews were separating and Navy had pulled ahead. The Midshipmen wouldn’t fold, and by race’s end, Navy had taken a lead of more than a length ahead of second-place Georgetown, finishing three and a half seconds ahead of the Hoyas...
Perhaps realizing that 2 1/2 hr. is a marathon length for a bedtime story, screenwriter Steve Kloves tried a few changes to make this one 15 min. shorter than the first Potter film and 25 min. shorter than the second: take the story at a sauntering pace; ditch the Quidditch, mostly; and (we'd argue with this choice) drop the novel's most arresting scene, a flashback to an earlier band of Hogwarts students on a cross-species nighttime prowl...
...left the company in 2000. Both he and the company say they have no ongoing connections. But TIME has obtained an internal Pentagon e-mail sent by an Army Corps of Engineers official--whose name was blacked out by the Pentagon--that raises questions about Cheney's arm's-length policy toward his old employer. Dated March 5, 2003, the email says "action" on a multibillion-dollar Halliburton contract was "coordinated" with Cheney's office. The email says Douglas Feith, a high-ranking Pentagon hawk, got the "authority to execute RIO," or Restore Iraqi Oil, from his boss...